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Find Your Bliss Any Way You Can
At least I will be easy to spot. “If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved,...
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Paradise – Day Three
Manly boys with spears Started our day out with no real idea of what we would do and finally settled upon hitting Waimea Canyon on the west side of the island. Popped the top off the Jeep, loaded up...
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Paradise – Day Four
Angels Trumpets…deadly if ingested but fun to look at. We must be getting adjusted to the time zone difference because our day got off to a later start. We began with a quick lunch in Koloa, grabbing a...
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Paradise – Day Five
No…your OTHER right. Today started very early and far too harried as we realized that our alarm had failed us and we were already 15 minutes behind schedule. We hastily threw ourselves together and...
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Paradise – Day Six
Three boys at the beach We had one goal to accomplish today. On the cruise last night, one of the shipmates had mentioned boogie boarding to the boys. He recommended Brennecke Beach, directly adjacent...
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Paradise – Day Seven
Joe at the lighthouse I think someone wants us to go home. When we went to sleep last night, it was raining. When I woke up in the middle of the night it was raining even harder. This morning when we...
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Life’s What You Make It
Joe at the beach Our oldest has had something of a rough re-entry into landlocked life since we returned from our Hawaiian vacation almost a month ago. I’m afraid that on our trip Joe realized that he,...
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Roll With It
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know. ~Pema Chodron Sunrise on Haleakala with a couple hundred of strangers Yesterday, I dropped my wedding band on the wood floor in our...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – December 26, 2021
Mornings here are getting into a rhythm. Steve and I wake early, take some photos when the area behind the house on the makai (towards the sea) side is calm and mostly people free. I like to wander...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – December 27, 2021
Even in paradise on vacation, there are days when you have to face reality and do the things. This was that sort of day. I started the day with a leisurely morning jaunt outside to relish the sunrise...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – December 28, 2021
Today was a day of the unexpected from start to finish. It began with my waking up early and deciding once again to go see if I could catch a pretty sunrise. I had my doubts because the forecast was...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – December 29, 2021
Steve and I took our first ever helicopter trip over Kauai in 2013. In 2016, we brought the boys along as we overflew Maui. Today we took the boys along again for a scenic flight over a fair portion...
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Hawaii: Big Island – December 30, 2021
Today was the most mellow day we have had yet on this vacation. Honestly, aside from taking some time to swim and snorkel in the keiki pond near our rental, photograph flowers, hunt for shells, and...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – December 31st, 2021
For this last day of 2021, I vowed to be more present. It’s something I have been working on this year, through mindfulness and meditation, because I want to be more checked in than checked out and...
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When we planned our ten-day trip here, we knew this vacation was to be more about sticking near our rental and relaxing than our usual whirlwind of non-stop sightseeing activity. It was one of the...
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Hawaii: The Big Island – January 1, 2022
Blue as far as the eye can see After a week of mostly cloudy skies with periods of sunshine, this day began with a clear, bright, perfect blue sky. Being an internal optimist (like a Sour Patch Kid, I...
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Shell Shock: The Crustacean Calamity
Shells without feet waiting for a clean and polish We got home yesterday afternoon and, being the Type A person I am, I immediately dove into the process of unpacking, doing laundry, and getting...
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My Life As A Stock Photo Model
A few months before we went to Hawaii, I mentioned to my husband that it might be a great opportunity to have some family portraits taken. So, I did some research to find us a photographer. The one I...
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